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Playback focuses on Jack Biner, a folklorist and oral historian who travels to the small town of Windrup to collect stories from the locals. His aim is to catalogue the intricacies of rural Australia, but as he begins his interviews he discovers that there has been, in the not too distant past, a number of accidents, the truth of which he is drawn to uncover. One man was shot in the head and rendered speechless. Another has his hand blown off and another is the victim of his own suicide. Everyone has a theory as to who is the good guy, and who is the bad guy, and the one who does know the truth, isn't saying anything. There's a woman too, Laura, with whom Biner falls in love during their clandestine affair. Part detective-mystery novel and part social history, Playback will appeal to those readers who like a ripping yarn, with a smattering of sex and mystery and also to those who demand more than "just a story."
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- PublisherFremantle Arts Centre Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1863680020
- ISBN 13 9781863680028
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp.(viii)+243. 20.5cm. Soft covers in dust jacket. A few small marks. A good clean copy. A good clean copy. (Australian fiction). Seller Inventory # 25396
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(1991)
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated card cover white coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, the same illustration as for underlying covers, with white and black coloured titles to the front panel and blue and black coloured titles to the backstrip. The story of a folklorist and gifted listener, who thinks the stop in a small West Australian town is nothing unusual. ". But soon he is entrusted with the vivid and often moving world of these people's memories. His need to remain and impartial collector is shaken, he finds he must live through much more than his own dilemmas ." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. The author's first novel. Size: Trade Paperback. [8], 243, [3] pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel. Book is in very good condition with minimal signs of age and wear. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; ISBN: 1863680020. ISBN/EAN: 9781863680028. Inventory No: 0117963. Seller Inventory # 0117963
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